T20 World Cup: Be careful against Wanindu: Muralitharan

Hasaranga
took
nine
wickets
to
power
his
team
to
the
Asia
Cup
title
win
and
Muralitharan
said
he
would
be
one
to
watch
out
for
during
the
T20
World
Cup.

“He’s
a
great
T20
bowler.
Last
2-3
years,
he’s
done
really
well.
He’s
a
young
guy,”
Muralitharan
told
reporters
in
an
interaction
on
the
eve
of
the
second
edition
of
the
Legends
League
Cricket.

“In
Australia,
definitely
the
leg
spinner
will
have
more
chances
then
finger
spinners.
He
will
be
a
difficult
opponent
to
bat
against.
You
have
to
be
very
careful
against
him.”

Talking
about
Sri
Lanka’s
Asia
Cup
campaign,
Muralitharan
said:
“We
had
a
very
young
team
in
the
past
few
years,
we
played
best
cricket
in
the
Asia
Cup.
They
looked
like
the
best
team
and
deserved
to
win
the
Asia
Cup.”

Sri
Lanka
will
have
to
take
the
qualifier
route
in
the
T20
World
Cup
where
they
are
clubbed
with
Namibia,
UAE
and
the
Netherlands.
Top
two
teams
will
make
the
main
round
—
Super
12.
“We
are
looking
forward
to
the
World
Cup
as
well.
They
are
formidable
but
unfortunately
we
have
to
play
the
qualifiers
to
get
into
the
main
round,”
he
said.

“The
past
few
years
we
didn’t
play
well
to
get
a
straight
entry.
But
at
the
moment
I’m
very,
very
confident
of
doing
well
in
the
World
Cup
as
well.”
Muralitharan,
who
is
the
highest
wicket-taker
in
Tests
with
800
scalps,
said
Australian
leg-spin
legend
Shane
Warne
was
“better”
than
him.

Warne
died
of
heart
attack
while
he
was
on
a
vacation
with
his
friends
in
Thailand
earlier
in
March
this
year.
“I
think
he
was
better
than
me,
when
I
was
playing
I
looked
up
to
him
and
learnt
things
from
him.
We
all
miss
him,”
an
emotional
Muralitharan
said.

The
former
Sri
Lankan
offspinner
will
turn
up
for
Manipal
Tigers
in
the
LLC-2,
which
will
be
played
among
teams
across
cities
of
Kolkata,
Lucknow,
Cuttack,
Jodhpur
and
New
Delhi.